No. 573 CUM
10-inch Comtoise clock with verge escapement and folded pendulum, dating from around 1840/1845. Two-part pressed decorative front plate depicting a sun head above a flower-filled chalice, flanked by feathers and vines, with stylized flowers in the four corners. The groove cleanly separates the upper section from the decorative corners, so that on the second pressed part with its two corners these could be cleanly cut off and then mounted as lower decorative corners after being rotated by 180 degrees. The clock still features the old sun hands of the 1820s/1830s, not the new star-shaped hands that appeared from 1840 onward in Comtoise clocks due to the renewed Napoleon enthusiasm; thus, the appearance of this decorative front plate on the market is more likely around 1841/1842 than 1844/1845. Full-hour strike on bell with repetition of the hour strike. Strike release by spring pressure, half-hour strike en passant. Enamel dial signed: Boyer père à Arlanc.
Dial diameter: 242
Cage dimensions: 276 × 272 × 151 H × W × D
Movement dimensions: 429 × 274 × 175 H × W × D
Pendulum length: approx. 1200
( all dimensions in mm )
